It's worth mentioning at this point that Rachel Scott's death was exploited by fundamentalist Christians to push a narrative about the mass shooting that had similar levels of accuracy to a lot of "based on a true story" Hollywood epics, details were inserted fudged and made to fit the facts and ultimately steered in a direction to what the intended audience where assumed to have wanted.

So yeah, I trust 20/20 hindsight accounts from her diary about as much as I trust RC reports of Stigmata! Edited because her dad's speech to congress sounded fairly sane.

From, er, "vertically living ministries." Surely an online fundie cult barking about "prophecy" wouldn't try to capitalize on a tragedy for their own nefarious ends, surely not.

Tell you what Jake, get together a larger sample size of more than one allegedly prophetic angsty teen doodles, crunch the numbers and give us a percentage of doodles that accurately predicted the future.

From, er, "vertically living ministries." Surely an online fundie cult barking about "prophecy" wouldn't try to capitalize on a tragedy for their own nefarious ends, surely not.

Tell you what Jake, get together a larger sample size of more than one allegedly prophetic angsty teen doodles, crunch the numbers and give us a percentage of doodles that accurately predicted the future.

You think the simplest explanation for an angsty teen doodle is prophecy?

Uh huh.

Occam's Razor: "Do not multiply entities unnecessarily."

Assuming God multiplies entities unnecessarily.

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Quote from: Jordan Duram

It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

Quote from: Supreme Court of Canada

Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

Well she wrote about her teen angst in her diary. How would teen angst cause her to draw a picture of 13 tears hitting a flower and turning into 13 drops of blood. And it was also drawn on the day she and the other 12 people died.

I also charitably counted what appears to be an extension of the squiggly line near the eye as a teardrop. It's most likely a decidedly non prophetic squiggle probably caused by her long suffering teacher instructing her to stop mucking about and get back to work, Sasha making unexpected raspberry noises or the hot boy in the third row.

How does blood drip from a rose when it's suspended above the plant again?